The so-called French categories were actually developed by the Portuguese slave traders. The words are not French. Barkley Rosser On Thu, 28 May 1998 11:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Tom Condit <tomcondit at igc.apc.org> wrote:
> Two slight factual corrections to Kenneth Mostern's post on this:
>
> 1. The label "Hottentot" applies not to Bantu peoples, but to the Khoi-San
> peoples.
>
> 2. In Louisiana, of course, they did have the elaborate French system of
> gradations -- mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, etc.
>
> Tom C.
>
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